Allen Best

1 week ago | gjsentinel.com | Allen Best

Big PivotsOh what a difference 20 years has made in how Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association views energy. An organization that in 2005 wanted to build a giant new coal plant now sees a future almost entirely devoid of coal. It expects to be at 70% renewables by 2030. Perhaps Tri-State failed to get the executive order from President Donald Trump, “Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful, Clean Coal Industry.” It’s an echo of the past.

2 weeks ago | durangotelegraph.com | Allen Best |Missy Votel

This week, Jonathan Thompson brings us a story (p.8-9) about Ol’ Big Foot, the last known wolf to roam southeastern Utah in the 1910s. But Sarah Melotte, writing for the Daily Yonder, has a story on the Bigfoot, as in the hairy, mysterious, man-beast said to roam the wilderness and haunt our days and nights. Over the last couple years, Melotte said she has been, “omnivorously consuming content” about encounters with strange creatures whose existence scientists can’t prove.

2 weeks ago | arkvalleyvoice.com | Allen Best

Nuclear bill got gobs of attention – and will mean nothing. Transmission bill will have results but has been mostly ignoredMatters of little consequence often get major time and attention. And vice versa. Two energy bills in the Colorado Legislature this year, one about nuclear energy and the second about electrical transmission, illustrate this. The first bill, HB25-1040, which is now law, declared that nuclear energy is clean. It proclaims that utilities can meet clean-energy targets with nuclear.

3 weeks ago | durangotelegraph.com | Allen Best

Matters of little consequence often get major time and attention. And vice versa. Two energy bills in the Colorado Legislature this year, one about nuclear energy and the second about electrical transmission, illustrate this. The first bill, HB25-1040, which is now law, declared that nuclear energy is clean. It proclaims that utilities can meet clean-energy targets with nuclear. It also allows private projects access to financing restricted to clean energy development.

3 weeks ago | durangotelegraph.com | Allen Best |Missy Votel

Seems like the next great thing in ski town real estate is not a place to park your butt for the night, but a place to park your wheels. That’s right: we’re talking parking spaces. “If you don’t own a condo in the central core of town, it can be very convenient to have a parking spot close to everything,” Hank Carter, an Aspen realtor told The Denver Post. “During the Fourth of July here, it is so crowded.